Today’s healthcare environment continues to be an industry in the throes of massive transformation. Value-based care may be a buzzword, but no one can argue it’s having disruptive impact on healthcare organizations across the country. Paying for care based on actual outcomes is a huge shift in the business model for healthcare, and requires faster […]
Building companies over the long term is challenging but incredibly rewarding. There is truth to the statement I’ve heard many times “once you’re an entrepreneur it’s hard to do anything else.” Early stage is driven by pure passion and wearing many hats and moving toward early goals at the pace of light. As you start […]
I watched the movie Her on-demand the other night. I didn’t expect to be impressed but actually thought it was really interesting. Not just because Scarlett Johansson did an amazing job conveying a human personality for a computer operating system (wow…go home Siri), but because it actually did a great job showing how the human-like […]
If you are in the business of media and you haven’t seen House of Cards yet, you’re missing out. Not because it’s the best show “on TV” right now (although it might be) but because it is a great symbol of some of the massive shifts happening in TV economics. Why? It makes the Netflix […]
I’ve been meeting a number of early stage ventures lately, and this topic sometimes gets missed. That’s a mistake that can be fixed pretty quickly. For seed level companies in a growing market space, investors are betting primarily on talent and market expertise. Yet often this story isn’t as tight as it needs to be […]
Netflix: Qwickster? Really??! I am baffled by the latest move of Netflix to separate their business into a DVD only business called “Qwickster” and a streaming business. They must have some incredible customer research they have done to support this, but I think it’s a terrible idea. Why? They built there entire brand on the […]